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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Migrant families"”.
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Chinese migrant families in New Zealand: Family functioning and individual well-being
… functioning and individual well-being in Chinese migrant families with adolescents in New Zealand. To achieve this, three studies were conducted. Study 1 investigated the level of family functioning and the influence of migration on it. The outcome measure used was parent-adolescent conflict. Nine …
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Migrant Families in Ireland: Understanding the Culture Landscapes of Transnational Family Life
Being ‗migrant‘ in Ireland is often presented in the popular media and academic studies as being somewhat problematic. While this study acknowledges some of the difficulties facing Ireland‘s migrant population, I attend in particular to some of the more everyday and ordinary things done as part of …
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Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of habitus, capital and field: an ethnographic case-study of migrant families in England
This research aims to examine how migrant families living in England establish their family language policy and practice. It is set within a context of increased levels of transnational migration and globalisation (OECD, 2015). The number of migrant families in which parents have different language …
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
… political parties' electoral strategies in the migrant sending countries? And what is the effect of these electoral strategies on migrant and non-migrant families' electoral choices? These are the two research questions that motivate this project. This dissertation argues that citizens' …
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For the Family, By the Family: Migration and “Betterment” in Rural Pakistan
This dissertation explores how migrant families in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mobilize the institution and ideology of the patriarchal family to achieve “betterment” in a migrant-dependent economy. Joint families send some sons as migrants to Malaysia and the Gulf and make others stay behind to …
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United for Wellbeing: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Increase Social Cohesion and Student Wellbeing in an Ethnically Diverse Rural School District
… the United States many rural communities rely on migrant populations for agricultural labor. Migrant families bring with them children who must be educated and made to feel part of a larger school community. Increasingly rural communities and the school districts that comprise them struggle to …
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Acculturation Gaps and Adjustment of Migrant Children and Families
… of acculturation gaps and adjustment of migrant families. This thesis was situated in the field of acculturation gap-distress model, which proposed a negative relationship between acculturation gaps and migrants’ adjustment. Although this acculturation gap-distress model has been studied …
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"I Don't Approve of That Way of Running a Family": Transient Children, Institutions, and Interventions in California Through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
… the state of California's responses to migratory families and children during the Depression and Dust Bowl. In particular, it emphasizes the growth of several state bureaucracies during this time, including the Department of Public Health, the Department of Education, and the Youth Authority. It …
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Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi
… growth. This thesis argues that Mexican migrants during the 1970s and 1980s were uniquely affected by Mississippi’s racial climate due to their ambiguous status in a Black and white society, where they fit in neither category. The examination of tactics by businesses, like B.C. Rogers …
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Exploring and Promoting Family Connections at a Distance Through FamilySong
… provides a context for increasing serendipity as families integrate it into their ecology of communication practices and devices. Through three design iterations involving Autobiographical Design, Research-Through-Design, and qualitative research methods, we study six Latin American migrant …
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An exploration of London based second generation Sierra Leoneans’ family mental health narratives and their relatedness to personal narratives of mental health
… Giving consideration to the unique experience of migrant families straddling two cultures, the research aims to explore these phenomena by investigating how the family narratives of second-generation Sierra Leoneans are related to their personal narratives about mental health examining the role of …
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Second-generation Turkish Americans in Chicago: the influences on the preservation of ethnic identity & Turkishness
… and scholarly analysis. I examine the role of migrant organizations, focusing on Turkish American migrant organizations in Chicago, and their effect on retention and maintenance of ethnicity. I am interested in the influences that preserve the Turkish connections within these migrant families …
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An Exploration of The Education Inequity of Rural-To-Urban Migrant Students in Nanjing, China
… movement. Hundreds of thousands of internal migrants migrated to cities in search of better work and educational opportunities. Due to the restrictions from public policies, rural-to-urban migrant children have long been disadvantaged in receiving education in urban areas. However, research …
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Negotiation of migratory and educational strategies of Polish families in Athens
… economic security for themselves and their families. Immigration is currently high up the political agenda in most European countries, including Greece, as they struggle to deal with the increased flow of illegal immigrants. In this context it becomes necessary to examine diverse aspects of …
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Rewriting Hmong womanhood: literacy that mediates borders
… that the revision of cultural gender roles for migrant women comes about through relocating literacies: moving family and home literacies across borders to public spaces such as schools, workplaces, and political realms while also using those same literacies to stay connected to their diasporic …
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Gatekeepers of the Family : Regulating Family Migration to Finland
… different, intersectionally positioned groups of migrants. Second, this thesis shows that the way in which migrant families are evaluated is part of s dual process of moral gatekeeping. On the one hand, moral justifications are used to argue for the inclusion or exclusion of certain families, …
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South Asian Young British Muslims: Identity, Habitus and the Family Field
Since the 1950s the incoming flows of immigrants have deeply transformed the social composition of British society which has become increasingly multicultural. Amongst other minority groups the position of Muslims, who are the second largest religious group in the UK, is particularly difficult. The …
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Influence of home and school environments on the academic performance of Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian students studying at an academically-oriented high school in Perth, Western Australia
… of the family status, children from the Asian migrant families, settled in the industrialised countries, tend to perform academically better than their counterparts from the dominant group. This disparity is attributed to a number of factors, which taken separately, do not address this complex …
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